{"id":1795040,"date":"2023-01-04T12:49:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795040"},"modified":"2023-01-04T12:49:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:49:55","slug":"last-surviving-astronaut-from-first-manned-apollo-mission-dead-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/last-surviving-astronaut-from-first-manned-apollo-mission-dead-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"At 90, the last survivor of the First Manned Apollo Mission Astronaut is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flast-surviving-astronaut-from-first-manned-apollo-mission-dead-at-90%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795040&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Walter Cunningham is the last living member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/apollo-11-what-we-saw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apollo<\/a> 7 mission, a Korean War veteran, died at 90 in a Houston hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a family spokesperson, Jeff Carr and Cunningham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/apollo-7-astronaut-walter-cunningham-dead-at-90\/2023\/01\/03\/2bc1e9e8-8bb1-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html\">died<\/a> \u201cfrom complications of a fall, after a full and complete life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to express our immense pride in the life that he lived, and our deep gratitude for the man that he was \u2013 a patriot, an explorer, pilot, astronaut, husband, brother, and father. The world has lost another true hero, and we will miss him dearly,\u201d Cunningham\u2019s family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/apollo-astronaut-walter-cunningham-dies-at-90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Make a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham was born March 16, 1932 in Creston (Iowa). He enlisted with the Navy in 1951. While on active duty in the Marine Corps, Cunningham served as a sailor. As a fighter pilot, Cunningham flew 54 nights in Korea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following his military service, Cunningham worked for the Rand Corporation, where he researched Earth\u2019s magnetosphere and worked on classified defense studies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 1963, he joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a>\u2019s third astronaut class and would eventually end up assigned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/apollo\/missions\/apollo7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apollo 7<\/a> Mission, the first manned Apollo missions. The mission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/03\/science\/space\/walter-cunningham-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came on<\/a> Following the tragic January 1967 accident at Cape Kennedy in Florida that resulted in the deaths of three astronauts, this is considered a key precursor to the moon landing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apollo 7 was launched in October 1968 from Florida with astronauts Cunningham and Wally Schirra. They completed 163 orbits of the Earth and eight technical tests. These were broadcast live on TV back to Earth. They landed in the ocean 325 miles south from Bermuda on their return.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-484068\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-484068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-517443744-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"(Original Caption) 8\/31\/1968-: Frogmen (L) help astronauts during egress training. Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele are shown pulling Walter Schirra out of a space capsule onto a rubber raft.\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-517443744-300x230-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-517443744-750x576-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-517443744-768x590-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-517443744.jpg 1024w\" style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-484068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Bettmann \/ Contributor via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe carried the nation\u2019s hope with us,\u201d Cunningham wrote this in 1977. \u201cTwenty-one months before, a fire on the very pad from which we launched had killed three of our teammates. One more setback now, and the prospects of landing a man on the moon before 1970 would be gone forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham flew 40 different aircraft over his entire life. He accumulated 4,500 hours of flying time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalt Cunningham was a fighter pilot, physicist, and an entrepreneur \u2013 but, above all, he was an explorer. On Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission, Walt and his crewmates made history, paving the way for the Artemis Generation we see today,\u201d NASA Administrator Bill Nelson stated this in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham completed his doctorate in Physics after his time with NASA. He did not have a thesis from Harvard Graduate School of Business. Cunningham would continue his interest in space exploration and real estate, while also becoming involved in business and real estate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was well-known for his views regarding global warming in his later years. \u201cAfter years of looking, I have not found one piece of empirical evidence that man-made CO2 has a significant impact on global climate,\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/opinion\/outlook\/article\/Climate-change-alarmists-ignore-scientific-methods-1710002.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Houston Chronicle editorial, 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham is a proud member of several hall-of fame organizations, including the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame. Cunningham also received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and NASA Exceptional Service Medal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Cunningham, the last surviving member of the Apollo 7 mission and a Korean War veteran, has died in a Houston hospital at 90.\u00a0 According to a family spokesman, Jeff Carr, Cunningham died \u201cfrom complications of a fall, after a full and complete life.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWe would like to express our immense pride in the life &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1795043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11361,13251,13252,6202,3642,13250,7877,5494,6195],"class_list":["post-1795040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-11361","tag-apollo","tag-astronaut","tag-daily","tag-dead","tag-manned","tag-mission","tag-survivor","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1795043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}